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Caterpillar (CAT) Dividends Paid - Common (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar has reported Dividends Paid - Common over the past 17 years, most recently at $706.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Dividends Paid - Common at $706.0 million for Q4 2025, up 3.82% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was $2.7 billion (up 3.89% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was $2.7 billion, up 3.89%.
  • Dividends Paid - Common for Q4 2025 was $706.0 million at Caterpillar, roughly flat from $707.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Dividends Paid - Common for CAT hit a ceiling of $707.0 million in Q3 2025 and a floor of $562.0 million in Q1 2021.
  • Median Dividends Paid - Common over the past 5 years was $634.0 million (2022), compared with a mean of $636.5 million.
  • Peak annual rise in Dividends Paid - Common hit 8.78% in 2021, while the deepest fall reached 0.88% in 2021.
  • Caterpillar's Dividends Paid - Common stood at $599.0 million in 2021, then rose by 3.51% to $620.0 million in 2022, then grew by 6.77% to $662.0 million in 2023, then rose by 2.72% to $680.0 million in 2024, then rose by 3.82% to $706.0 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Dividends Paid - Common were $706.0 million (Q4 2025), $707.0 million (Q3 2025), and $662.0 million (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.